7 julio, 2015 – Derecho y Políticas de Libre Competencia en América Latina

The Adoption of Modern Competition Policies in Latin America – Part I: North and Central America and the Caribbean

Mergers, Industries, and Innovation: Evidence from R&D Expenditure and Patent Applications 7 febrero, 2023
Mergers, Industries, and Innovation: Evidence from R&D Expenditure and Patent Applications NERA Mergers and Innovation Feb 2023 Download For decades, there has been a broad consensus among policymakers, antitrust enforcers, and economists that most mergers pose little threat from an...
D Daniel Sokol
The Economics of Amazon 7 febrero, 2023
The Economics of Amazon Federico Etro Florence School of Economics and Management Abstract We survey the literature on the economics of eCommerce with particular emphasis on the antitrust debate about Amazon. The business model of such a hybrid marketplace is...
D Daniel Sokol
Amazon Private Brands: Self-Preferencing vs Traditional Retailing 6 febrero, 2023
Amazon Private Brands: Self-Preferencing vs Traditional Retailing Jean-Pierre Dubé University of Chicago - Booth School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Marketing Science Institute (MSI) Abstract Competition authorities and various digital platform regulations apply a double standard in...
D Daniel Sokol

“El ridículo lo hago en privado” 8 febrero, 2023
Tuve un profesor de literatura en el COU del Ramiro de Maeztu de Madrid al que pedimos que, en lugar de explicarnos a Ganivet o al propio Ramiro de Maeztu, nos explicara a García Lorca. El profesor, que era granadino, y había hecho su tesis doctoral sobre Martín Recuerda y Las Arrrecogías del Beaterio de Santa María Egipciaca nos respondió que él, el ridícul […]
JESÚS ALFARO AGUILA-REAL
Medidas cautelares contra la UEFA en relación con la Superliga: el Auto de la Audiencia Provincial de Madrid 7 febrero, 2023
El Auto de la Audiencia Provincial de Madrid nº 38/2023 de 30 de enero que ha restaurado la vigencia de las medidas cautelares impuestas a la FIFA y a la UEFA en relación con la llamada “Superliga” (en adelante, Superligao ESLC) es un texto jurídico notable. En una entrada anterior he resumido y comentado las Conclusiones del Abogado General sobre las cuest […]
JESÚS ALFARO AGUILA-REAL
La falta de mención en la convocatoria al derecho de información específico para la aprobación de las cuentas anuales supone su nulidad 3 febrero, 2023
Por Mercedes AgredaEs la Resolución de la DGSJFP de 20 de diciembre de 2022 Se rechaza el depósito de cuentas anuales, entre otros defectos, porque no resulta que se haya dado cumplimiento al derecho de información que establece el art. 272.2 LSC que dispone expresamente la obligación de reflejar en el anuncio de convocatoria el derecho que le asiste a cual […]
JESÚS ALFARO AGUILA-REAL

Main Developments in Competition Law and Policy 2022 – Kazakhstan 5 enero, 2023
A year of establishing crucial goals and flourishing development The previous year was flourishing and fruitful for the development of competition law in Kazakhstan. According to the annual report of the Agency for the Protection and Development of Competition of the Republic of Kazakhstan (the “Agency”) on the state of competition and measures to limit... C […]
Konstantin Voropaev (Elbert, Nazaretsky, Rakov & Co)
On-platform Tying or Another Case of Leveraging – A Discussion on Facebook Marketplace 4 enero, 2023
Factual background Just before 2022 ended the Commission sent a statement of objections to Meta regarding the potential abusive behaviour of Facebook. According to the statement of objections, Facebook may be engaging in (i) abusive tying practices with regard to Facebook Marketplace as users (i.e. consumers) that log into Facebook and are automatically also […]
Daniel Mândrescu (Leiden University)
Main Developments in Competition Law and Policy 2022 – Iceland 3 enero, 2023
The year 2022 was an eventful year both for the Icelandic Competition Authority (“ICA”) and Icelandic Courts regarding competition enforcement and merger control. Iceland is a member of the EEA Agreement and Icelandic competition law therefore mainly mirrors EU competition law. Over the year several high-profile merger cases were amicably resolved following […]
Peter Dalmay (Jonsson & Hall Law Firm)

Bamboozled? 27 enero, 2023
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a... Continue reading The post Bamboozled? app […]
Robert E. Connolly (Law Office of Robert Connolly)
Listen…. 3 noviembre, 2022
Two items recently in the cartel news caught my eye because they have something in common: the chicken parts criminal price fixing prosecution failures and Donald C. Klawiter’s article calling for A Really New Leniency Program: A Positive, Cooperative, and Enthusiastic Partnership for Effective Antitrust Enforcement, Antitrust, Vol. 36, No. 3, Summer 2022. W […]
Robert E. Connolly (Law Office of Robert Connolly)
SUPREME COURT PREVIEW: Is the Supreme Court about to hand the Federal Trade Commission another enforcement setback? 1 octubre, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court this term will hear arguments in a case questioning whether respondents in a Federal Trade Commission proceeding can challenge the constitutionality of the FTC’s procedures and structure in federal district court while an administrative action is pending or whether they must wait for appellate court review of a Commission cease-and-des […]
Jeffrey May (Wolters Kluwer)

New Proposed Competition Bureau Guidance on Wage-Fixing and No-Poaching Agreements 31 enero, 2023
January 31, 2023 Practical Law Canada Competition, of which I am Lawyer Editor, has published a new Legal Update that discusses new proposed Competition Bureau guidelines on wage fixing and no-poaching agreements under section 45 of the Canadian Competition Act. Below is an excerpt with a link to the full Legal Update. ********** This Legal […] The post New […]
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Competition Bureau Enforcement and Advocacy: Recent Developments 14 diciembre, 2022
December 14, 2022 Practical Law Canada Competition, of which I am Lawyer Editor, published a new Legal Update that discusses recent Canadian Competition Bureau enforcement and advocacy. Below is an excerpt with a link to the full Legal Update. ********** This Legal Update discusses recent enforcement and advocacy by the Competition Bureau. The Update include […]
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Competition Bureau Updates Competition Act Enforcement Related Information Bulletins 29 noviembre, 2022
November 29, 2022 Practical Law Canada Competition, of which I am Lawyer Editor, published a new Legal Update that discusses the Competition Bureau’s (Bureau) updated Information Bulletin on Misleading Representations and Deceptive Marketing Practices: Choice of Criminal or Civil Track under the Competition Act and new Information Bulletin on Transparency. T […]
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ÚLTIMOS ENLACES DE ACTUALIDAD 25 octubre, 2022
2 de febrero de 2023: El Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea (TJUE) anula parcialmente la Decisión de la Comisión relativa al «sistema español de arrendamiento fiscal»19 de enero de 2023: El Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea (TJUE) responde a una cuestión prejudicial sobre abuso de posición dominante y efectos de las cláusulas de exclusividad en […]
Los "acuerdos de sostenibilidad" ante el Derecho de la Competencia 24 octubre, 2022
La inclusión de la sostenibilidad como criterio europeo en la evaluación antitrust de los acuerdos entre empresas es un hecho que se va consolidando en las nuevas normas del Derecho de la Competencia, lo que confirma la importancia de este sector del Derecho para la transición ecológica. En este sentido, se observa con claridad la incidencia de los objetivos […]
El TGUE confirma una sanción récord a Google por restricciones ilegales con el objeto de consolidar la posición dominante de su motor de búsqueda (STGUE de 14 de septiembre de 2022) 16 septiembre, 2022
En su Decisión de 18 de julio de 2018 la Comisión Europea impuso la multa más elevada impuesta por una autoridad de competencia de la UE (más de 4 mil millones de euros) por abuso de posición dominante de Google, concretado en la imposición de las siguientes restricciones a sus contratantes: a) requerir la preinstalación de su aplicación de búsqueda general […]

Comisión Europea v Google 28 agosto, 2015
Hace cuatro meses, la Comisión Europea le envió a Google [Diclaimer: este blog se aloja en un sitio de Google] su Statement of Objections (SO) en la que indicaba qué le objetaba a dicha firma (síntesis: buscador, android tal vez, otros que no recuerdo). La investigación comenzó en 2010, convengamos. En síntesis, se decía:"Google systematically positions […]
Francisco Agüero
i am back 28 agosto, 2015
El último post fue hace varios meses. Razones para escribir, abundan. Razones para no escribir, pueden ser mayores. Como sea: I am back.
Francisco Agüero
U. of Chicago Summer Institute Law and Economics: Economic Analysis of Contracts and Commercial Law 14 enero, 2015
Un interesante programa en Derecho & Economía imparte la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Chicago, en julio de este año. Me parece recomendable (disclaimer: postulé a él), y hay docentes del nivel de Eric Posner, Randal Picker, entre otros.Más información, acá: http://www.law.uchicago.edu/lawecon/summerinstitute P.D.. El deadline se ha extendido, […]
Francisco Agüero

John Temple Lang 12 noviembre, 2022
John Temple Lang interrupted me during my first speaking engagement on behalf of the Commission. I was at an IBA conference in Cannes, presenting a draft notice on antitrust and telecoms which I’d been mostly responsible for writing. This was in the late 90s when telecoms work was probably at its height. I […]
Kevin Coates
EU gives Google 2 months to improve hotel, flight search results 29 julio, 2021
Interesting that while the European Parliament is processing over 1000 proposed amendments to the DMA, the controversial issue of self-preferencing now seems to be a consumer protection issue and not just an antitrust one (via Reuters): Alphabet unit Google (GOOGL.O) has two months to improve the way it presents internet search results for flights and […]
Kevin Coates
Google Italy, refusal to supply decision 13 mayo, 2021
The Italian competition authority’s decision into Google’s refusal to allow interoperability between Android and a third party app is published here. Simonetta Vezzosa (@wavesblog) has done a mammoth twitter thread, translating key parts, and pausing only for occasional injections of espresso. For an uncorrected full English machine translation courtesy of D […]
Kevin Coates

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Derecho y Políticas de Libre Competencia en América Latina

Competencia y Regulación en América Latina | Antitrust and Regulation in Latin America | Concorrência e Regulaçao na América Latina

Día: 7 de julio de 2015

The Adoption of Modern Competition Policies in Latin America – Part II: South America

The Adoption of Modern Competition Policies in Latin America – Part I: North and Central America and the Caribbean